Patient Transporter

Responsibilities

• Transfers patients from one area to another by wheelchair, bed, or stretcher.
• Affords assistance in the transport of essential supplies during traumas and cardiac arrests.
• Handles items such as IV bags, oxygen masks, oxygen tanks, urine drainage bags, blood bags, and medical monitoring devices that may be attached to the patient during transport.
• Transports expired patients to the morgue by stretcher.
• Initiates the call upon patient discharge, alerting all departments involved in the bed turnover process.
• Picks up and delivers routine and STAT laboratory specimens, blood, and medical items.
• Utilizes tele-tracking system.
• Collaborates with other employees to ensure the needs of the patient and department are met.

Requirements

• High School diploma, or equivalency.
• Current RQI Healthcare Provider eCredential through the University of Utah Health RQI system, to be obtained within 30 days of hire.
• Additional license requirements as determined by the hiring department.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Working Conditions and Physical Demands:
• Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation:
• This position involves intensive work that may exert up to 100 pounds and may consistently require lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling or otherwise moving objects, such as medical equipment, or patients while providing medical care.
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• Pulling,
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